Psalms 119:97
O how I love your law! it is my meditation all the day.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
In Context
96I have seen an end of all perfection: but your commandment is exceeding broad.
98You through your commandments have made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:6And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in yours heart:
Joshua 1:8This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; but you shall meditate therein day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
Psalms 119:15I will meditate in your precepts, and have respect unto your ways.
Psalms 119:48My hands also will I lift up unto your commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in your statutes.
Psalms 119:127Therefore I love your commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
Psalms 119:165Great peace have they which love your law: and nothing shall offend them.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:97
96 I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. Here we have David's testimony from his own experience, 1. Of the vanity of the world and its insufficiency to make us happy: I have seen an end of all perfection. Poor perfection which one sees an end of! Yet such are all those things in this world which pass for perfections. David, in his time, had seen Goliath, the strongest, overcome, Asahel, the swiftest, overtaken, Ahithophel, the wisest, befooled, Absalom, the fairest,… Read the whole commentary →